lenn - you are clicking on the groups once you've gathered them together, aren't you? Stuff just popping of its own accord doesn't get you any points. You get 50 points for popping a thing on its own, but each thing in a group scores 50*(distance in chain from clicked tihng), with a 2X multiplier when the distance is greater than 5.
What kind of scores are you getting at the end?
What kind of scores are you getting at the end?